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Fillies’ youth basketball camp begins Aug. 3
Coach Kim Furnish and the Harrison County Basketball Fillies will hold their annual camp on Monday, Aug. 3, through Wednesday, Aug. 5.
The camp is for kindergarten through eighth grade. The camp will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each of the three days.
The camp will feature instruction from Furnish and her staff along with some of the current high school team. There will also be a tee-shirt for each participant.

Kentucky’s Lt. Gov. Crit Luallen was in Cynthiana Wednesday afternoon to help announce the relocation of Continental Mixer Solutions, which is a subsidiary of Commercial Specialty Truck Holdings (CSTH).
The company, which produces Ready-Mix truck bodies, will create 80 jobs and invest $2,125,738 into the Cynthiana project. Continental Mixers has moved to the facility shared by another CSTH subsidiary, E-Z Pack Refuse Hauling Solutions, which employs 100 people in Cynthiana.

Hampton aces No. 7 at Stoner Creek
Cynthiana’s Doug Hampton scored his second hole in one Sunday playing in Paris at Stoner Creek Country Club. The ace came on hole No. 7 with Hampton using a six iron on the 161-yard hole.
“I hit the ball well but we thought the hole was in the back of the green,” said Hampton. “When we drove up to the green, the hole was just off the front and we didn’t see a ball. I waited in the cart for a few minutes before looking in the hole.”

By Kelly McKinney, News writer
For Cynthiana mom Carman Thornton Ratliff, life as she knew it stopped on March 5. And it has yet to resume.
March 5 was the day a sledding trip, which should have been a happy outing for her outgoing, athletic teen daughter, turned into a tragedy.
That day, then-15-year-old Abby Ratliff’s sled careened out of control and slammed into a mailbox. Abby’s head smashed into the mailbox.
The impact of the collision caused Abby to suffer severe head trauma.

By Kelly McKinney, News writer
A man traveling through Harrison County on Sunday thought he was being pulled over, but sheriff’s deputies say he ended up being robbed with a gun pointed at his head.
Josh Roseberry was traveling east on 62 toward Cynthiana between 5:30 and 5:45 p.m. About a mile past the Russell Cave Road intersection between Leesburg and Cynthiana, he saw a black car that looked like a Dodge Charger behind him with blue and red lights flashing, according to Harrison County Sheriff’s Deputy Dean Hutchison.

By Becky Barnes, Editor
Eighty new jobs and a new partnership were announced last week when Lt. Gov. Crit Luallen and local dignitaries welcomed Continental Mixers to Cynthiana from Texas.
Frank Busicchia, president and partner with Commercial Specialty Truck Holdings LLC, said the company bought Continental Mixer Solutions and E-Z Pack Refuse Hauling Solutions within four months of each other in 2014.
He noted that the idea was to bring the two together in Cynthiana.

Last Thursday and Friday, the Harrison County High School football team met with Bracken County for 7-on-7 and linemen work. ‘
On Thursday, the Breds traveled to Brooksville and Friday the Polar Bears paid a visit to the Hilltop.
On both occasions, the skill position players went 7-on-7 and the linemen competed in various strength and agility drills.

By Becky Barnes, Editor
What came bubbling up in the yards of some Cynthiana residents last week wasn’t black gold.
In the midst of the City of Cynthiana’s $5 million sewer line improvement project, an area of town not slated for renewal found yards and a creek steeping in raw sewage.
Cynthiana Mayor James Smith said Tuesday that the crews working on the upgrades switched locations to make immediate repairs.
The trouble area is in the back yards of homes located between Pike and Bridge streets, he said.

By Becky Barnes, Editor
When The Cynthiana Democrat’s annual Back-to-School edition comes out July 30, there will be an obvious missing element.
Classroom assignments will not be included due to the recent passing of House Bill 5.
“They mandate it and we have to abide,” said Harrison County Superintendent Andy Dotson, noting that HB5/Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is at the crux of the recommendations.

By Becky Barnes, Editor
Isabella Menard is a little girl facing a mountain of disabilities.
However, some of those disorders might be lessened if she can get the love and companionship of a service dog.
“Bella,” as she is called by her friends and classmates at Eastside Elementary, suffers from epilepsy, juvenile dementia, seizures, autism and heart disease.
“I have been approved to receive a service dog through 4 Paws for Ability and I am so excited,” Bella said in a statement released by her mother, Tanya Menard.